If you were expecting this release on May 15th as I promised, sorry about that ^^ There has been quite a bit of refactoring on this cycle in the skinning code and WebGLRenderer itself. It was better to wait for things to be more stable.

As you can see on the change log there is a ton of new bits to play with!

One I would like to highlight is the VRControls and VREffect that eases the process of supporting the new experimental VR HMD being implemented in Firefox and Chrome:

4 years ago I set myself on the path of making WebGL win (versus Adobe's Stage3D, etc). Now that Google, BlackBerry, Mozilla, Opera, Microsoft, Apple and Intel are supporting the technology I can finally take a deep breath.

Along the path I've had to deal with a ton of negativity and counter-productive comments. It's been an interesting journey...

Of course, taking the full credit would be ridiculous. More than 300 other developers share the credit just on the +three.js side. And like +three.js, many other libraries and engines have been doing their part to show how the technology could benefit the web.

We're not done yet though. I think we're just getting started with the kind of things WebGL can bring to the web. We've finally started to work on tools and that should open the technology to non-developers too.

We're almost to our funding goal for OTTO the hackable Raspberry Pi camera on Kickstarter! http://bit.ly/get_otto

Our toy camera / pocketsize computer has been on the front page of the Icelandic national newspaper, on Thai nightly news, KRON4, praised by Creator's Project, Tech Crunch, Peta Pixel, and maligned on Reddit. I think that adds up to some kind of milestone in life.﻿

Aaron Koblin is an artist specializing in data and digital technologies and he leads the Data Arts Team at Google’s Creative Lab.

Aaron takes real-world and community generated data and uses it to reflect on cultural trends and the changing relationship between humans and technology. His projects have been shown at international festivals including Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, OFFF, the Japan Media Arts Festival, and TED. He received the National Science foundation's first place award for science visualization and is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Two of his music video collaborations have been Grammy nominated. He received his MFA in Design|Media Arts from UCLA. In 2010 Aaron was the Abramowitz Artist in Residence at MIT.

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